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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was arrested in Chicago 60 years ago this week. Then a 21-year-old University of Chicago student, Sanders was charged with resisting arrest during an Aug. 12, 1963 demonstration in Englewood — along with comedian Dick Gregory and 54 others — against the use of mobile classrooms in the city’s public schools. Chicago Public Schools superintendent Benjamin Willis .
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(The Cdenter Square) – The founder of a policy advocacy group is calling for more oversight after the latest state budget included a $300,000 grant to a group headed by a convicted felon. Former state Rep. Jeanne Ives, .
Johnson, who was in Springfield the days following the weekend’s violence, touts a strategy he pledged on the campaign trail: More job opportunities for the city’s youth. But is the solution really that simple?